Eric's Club

Eric's Club is a music club in Liverpool, England. It opened on 1 October 1976 in the basement of The Fruit Exchange Building in Victoria Street, with performances by The Runaways and The Sex Pistols (their only Liverpool gig) before soon moving around the block to its long-term site on Mathew Street opposite The Cavern Club where The Beatles and other bands of the 1960s played, and became notable for hosting early performances by many punk and post-punk bands. The club was started by Roger Eagle, who had promoted gigs at the Liverpool Stadium between 1970 and 1976 for acts such as T. Rex, Led Zeppelin, Chuck Berry, Captain Beefheart, David Bowie, The Kinks, and Lou Reed, and Ken Testi, manager of the Liverpool band Deaf School. Pete Fulwell, owner of the small record label "Inevitable" and later manager of Liverpool bands It's Immaterial and The Christians, joined them later. The club was given the name 'Eric's' by Ken Testi as an antidote to disco clubs with names such as 'Tiffany's' and 'Samantha's'